A simple, inexpensive device for measuring the critical temperature of a high-temperature superconductor.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Green, David B.; Douphner, Dijon; Hutchinson, Bennett
- Source
- Journal of Chemical Education; April 1992, Vol. 69, p343-343, 1p
- Subject
- Copper oxide
Temperature measurements
Superconductivity
Barium compounds
Superconductors
- Language
- ISSN
- 00219584
Describes a simple, inexpensive method for measuring the temperature at which the Meissner effect exists in a disk of YBa2Cu3O7-X. What the superconductor holder is constructed from; Cautions; Details.